Attacks by powerful militias against civilians reflect the state’s inaction eight years after a peace accord removed a powerful rebel group from the field.
Colombia’s government is reactivating arrest orders for the top leadership of the nation’s largest rebel group
The mountains of Catatumbo in eastern Colombia are so dangerous that the police and army generally don’t stray far from their barracks for fear of snipers.
With 80 people killed and 40,000 displaced by violence wrought by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) militia's fight with rival armed groups over drug trafficking territory in northeastern Colombia,
The criminal war in northeast Colombia has escalated, as intense fighting between two Colombian guerrilla groups erupted in the Catatumbo region, a key cocaine production hub and criminal hotspot along the Venezuelan border.
When police boarded Quinci’s boat, they found him hunched over a foldout table, sipping a coffee in a tracksuit In fact, he was a smuggler ferrying uncut cocaine from Venezuela to Spain on ...
Tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing one of Colombia’s biggest cocaine-producing regions to escape the most intense outbreak of violence since a 2016 peace deal.Most Read from BloombergHow Sanctu
Telmo Mineiro, a fisherman from São Miguel, takes a heavy drag on his cigarette and points to where he found a brick of uncut cocaine on the shore. “We were hunting for sea urchins,” he says, “we saw the pack and went to get it out of curiosity.
Some of the estimated 18,000 displaced people have fled into Venezuela. The armed groups are fighting over control of strategic drug routes that have been fueling a boom in cocaine production from ...
Ten members or associates of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Araguas have been indicted on charges of running a gun trafficking operation in New York City that stretched across the country.
More details emerged Monday about a federal raid on a pop-up nightclub early Sunday morning near Denver, that was aimed at disrupting the operations of the Venezuelan Tren De Aragua gang in Colorado.
Both the ELN and FARC-EMC have long fought for control over this drug-rich area, but recent violence marks a significant escalation.